new coil

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• Subject: new coil
• From: RODERICK MAXWELL <major-at-vicksburg-dot-com>
• Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:45:08 -0600
• Subscriber: major-at-vicksburg-dot-com Thu Jan 16 22:57:39 1997

Well I've found at least part of the problem. It seems the ball
discharge terminal was too large, so to correct the problem I took a
plastic fishing cork and covered it in aluminum foil. Tapped in at the
13th turn I got 12inch sparks! But I'm still having sparks break out on
the wire leadig up to the terminal. Maybe substituting a terminal
somewhere in between the two sizes is the answer? I also decreased the
distance between the terminal and the top of the coil hoping that that
would help. No joy. Will also try increase in conductor on ground
connection to reduce skin effect. 


                                 Frankensteins Helper
                                        Max

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